Take one and a half cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of flour, the whites of ten eggs, and one teaspoonful of cream-tartar. Beat the eggs to a froth and stir the sugar with them; put the cream-tartar in the flour, and then stir the flour with the paste lightly and quickly. Do not stir the cake after the flour is fairly in. Bake in a quick oven.
Strawberry Shortcake.
Recipe No. 1.
Take: Flour, 1 qt.; eggs, 4; cream or melted butter, 1 teacupful; milk; salt, 1 teaspoonful; strawberries; white sugar.
Mix a quart of flour with four beaten eggs, a teacupful of cream or melted butter, and a teaspoonful of salt; add enough milk to roll it out. Roll it out thin; line a shallow baking pan with part of it, put in a thick layer of nice, ripe strawberries, and sprinkle in sufficient white sugar to sweeten them; cover them with a thin layer of the crust; then add another layer of strawberries and sugar, and cover the whole with another layer of the crust. Bake in a quick oven about twenty-five minutes.
Strawberry Shortcake.
Recipe No. 2.
Take: A soda biscuit crust made with flour, 1 qt.; soda, 1 teaspoonful; cream-tartar, 2½ teaspoonfuls; butter, 3 oz.; sweet milk, 3 gills. This will make two cakes.
If the cake is to be served on a platter, roll the crust the shape and size inside the rim; if a dinner plate is to be used, make the cakes round. Roll the crust to the thickness of half an inch, prick and bake in a quick oven. Have the strawberries cut in two or three pieces, split the cakes, lay one half on the plate; butter it and put over it a thick layer of strawberries and sugar; then replace the other half, upside down, if there is to be another layer of fruit. Leave in the oven five to ten minutes, and serve smoking hot.
White Cake.
Take: Sugar, 2 cupfuls; butter, 1 cupful; milk, 1 cupful; eggs, whites of 6; cream-tartar, 2 teaspoonfuls; soda, 1 teaspoonful; flour, 2 cupfuls; cornstarch, 1 cupful.
Beat together two cups of sugar and one of butter; add one cupful of sweet milk, the whites of six eggs whipped to a froth, two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar, one of soda, two cupfuls of flour, and one of cornstarch. Mix together thoroughly, and bake in a rather quick oven.